Giant concrete pour planned for MSU nuclear science research facility

8:14 AM,
Jul. 23, 2014

Construction at the future home of Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) on the campus of Michigan State University in East Lansing. This 55-foot deep area will become the target area from the linear accelerator tunnel.

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Matthew Miller
Gannett Michigan

The pour starts at 3 a.m. on Wednesday, 140 truckloads of concrete trucked onto Michigan State University's campus to the wide, deep hole where the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams will be.

Delivering that much concrete will take about eight hours, maybe more, but "it's not too difficult with preplanning and efficient planning," said Reid Goniwiecha, regional sales manager for Superior Materials LLC, which owns Builders' Redi-Mix in Lansing.

"It will take 19 trucks to properly service the job," he said. That's 19 trucks making about seven trips apiece. ...